5:25 When he came and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” He answered, “Your servant hasn’t been anywhere.”
1 tn Heb “man of God” (also in v. 9).
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
1 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
2 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”
3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
4 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”